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Evil Dead II

Evil Dead II (referred to in publicity materials as Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn) is a 1987 American horror/black comedy film about Ash Williams being stuck in a cabin out in the woods, and using a shotgun and chainsaw to fight to keep his very soul. It is the sequel to The Evil Dead.

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[Ash's hand gains a life of its own.] You bastards. You dirty bastards. [sobs] Gimme back my hand... GIMME BACK MY HAND!

[Ash stabs his possessed hand with a kitchen knife, pinning it to the floor.] That's right... who's laughing now? [grabs the chainsaw and revs it.]Who's laughing now? ARRRGHH!!![cuts the hand off at the wrist.]

Got you, didn't I, you little sucker!

[when his sawn-off hand gives him the finger] Son of a...!

[to his freshly sawn off possessed hand] Here's your new home. [He then places a bucket and a stack of books on it to trap the hand; the top book reads "A Farewell to Arms"]

Yeah, Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness were two of my favorite experiences, mainly because we were a group of young guys at the time. We didn’t have a care in the world, other than just loving what we were doing. I had loved the first Evil Dead. So when the sequel came around, Mark Shostrom, who I was working for at the time, brought me onboard. I was one of the key artists in the shop and supervising a lot for the film, so it was a great experience, because I was in charge of a lot. That kind of led to us opening our own shop. Greg had been supervising various shops around town, too.

We had lived together, and we called our place “The home of wayward make-up artists,” because anyone who came in from out of town always flopped on our couch. You’d be surprised how many industry people and notable names stayed on our couch, because when they first came to LA they needed a place to crash…sometimes for months!

Robert Tapert: Our sales agent, Irvin Shapiro, who handled Evil Dead and taught us everything about getting a movie in front of an audience and get it promoted, he said, "Boys, I want to take an ad out for Evil Dead 2." And we said, "We're never going to make Evil Dead 2." But Sam had the name Medieval Dead. So Irving Shapiro had an artist do an ad. He kept the Evil Dead franchise in the overseas buyers' minds.

Scott Spiegel: We wrote the bulk of it in Silver Lake. Sam had rented a house with Joel and Ethan Coen. Fran McDormand and Holly Hunter were our roommates. Holly was just getting [her career] started. I'll never forget her in her sweatpants on the floor in her room, reading scripts. We wrote [the character of] Bobby Joe for her, but Rob Tapert said, "We need a babe for that role."